In the occupied Crimea for the first quarter of this year, 25 detentions were recorded, 14 of which were targeted against indigenous people. The number of violations compared to 2019 for the same period decreased, but the detentions themselves did not stop, they are systemic in nature. This is stated in the analysis of human rights violations in Crimea for the first quarter of 2020 of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
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A number of recorded detentions were carried out after searches. Crimean residents were detained on suspicion of their involvement in the organizations Hizb ut-Tahrir and Jehovah's Witnesses, banned in the Russian Federation, and allegedly participating in the so-called Noman Çelebicihan volunteer battalion, on suspicion of allegedly public calls for terrorist activities, as well as allegedly illegal acquisition, storage, transportation of explosives and ammunition.
Also, regular cases of detentions on the administrative border with the occupied Crimea were recorded.
A truly outrageous case is the arrest of the 17-year-old Server Rasilchak, who was tortured by officers of the so-called Saky police of the occupied Crimea.
We remind that in the first quarter of 2020, the CTRC recorded 15 searches in the occupied Crimea, 12 of which were carried out in the Crimean Tatar households. This indicator is also less than the number of searches for the first quarter of 2019. Then the CTRC recorded 45 searches. However, the trend of political and religious persecution has remained unchanged since the occupation of the peninsula.